The head of the commission tasked with organizing Republika Srpska’s upcoming referendum on the RS national holiday said that he had filed an appeal with the BiH Court after the BiH Central Elections Commission refused to share voter lists with RS. According to Chairman Sinisa Karan, the CEC’s decision as issued “does not correspond to” the statements and discussions that took place during the CEC’s meeting on the matter. RS is asking the Court to force the CEC to release the minutes of the meeting.
“We have information that the wording of the CEC’s decision, by which it rejected to forward voters’ lists to Srpska, does not correspond to the explanation of the said decision. If this is true, this will be an incredible precedent and we will probably file criminal charges against certain CEC members since they abused their offices and failed to forward data that they are obliged to forward in keeping with the law,” Karan told reporters after a session of the referendum commission.
According to him, the CEC banned the use of polling stations for the referendum since this would hinder the election process.
“According to this logic, we in Srpska would have to close all public institutions, schools and nurseries, until a referendum is held,” Karan said.
